“Since this new way gives us such confidence, we can be very bold.”

Patti and I bought printer paper.  As I looked at the packaging, as you can see here, the packaging states that the paper is 99.99% Jam-Free (which is also trademarked – I can’t tell if it is the whole 99.99% Jam-Free that is TM’d or just Jam-Free).

While I think they think that this might try to create confidence, it actually now makes me wonder when will I see that 0.01%?  We have to be careful with statistics.  99.99% seems really good, but what children’s nursery would post, “99.99% babies not dropped.”  Of course not, that would be really silly.  Still for some, 99.99% of paper not jamming is not good enough.  We have to be careful in how we think we are building confidence.

So, what are we to think of the confidence that we should have in God?  What is to be remembered is that with God, we really only have two choices.  We either have 100% confidence in God and what He wants to do for us, or we should have no confidence at all.  Because, if we don’t have 100% confidence, then how could we put our trust in a God who would give us less than 100%?  God is all in for us.  He gave His all to prove it so.  So, what percentage of our trust and confidence are we giving back to Him?

Reference: 2nd Corinthians 3:12 (New Living Translation)